After a month of stay in the bountiful Bix.

The train set off again, and after passing through the walls of Bix, and after crossing a jungle in the southeastern part of the Duchy of Bix, it headed east to the borders of Pratt & Whitney.

This is a country with a high degree of militarization.

The dense railways on the plains spread like creepers across the plains, and small cities in the form of military fortresses towered over them.

At the center of every small city are huge steam energy towers. The steam tower is staggered with pipes

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The train was next to a small station in the city, making supplies on the way.

Chengtou was busy negotiating with the nobles of Pratt & Whitney, and Binghe ran off the train and began to observe the city without anyone taking care of him.

Walking down the street, Binghe looked at everyone on the street

There are only a few very monotonous types of clothes for people in the whole city. Blue workers' clothing, earthy yellow military clothing, off-white women's clothing. Everyone's expressions were serious. When talking to each other, both the tone and the expression are very rigid.

And when these people found that Binghe was looking at them, they also turned their heads and looked at Binghe in novelty.

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Half an hour later

Binghe climbed the metal tower in the middle of the city. Stand on a high vantage point and observe the whole picture of this small and medium-sized city with a population of no more than 100,000

After seeing the phenomena of "students lining up neatly in the school area" and "workers walking in columns in the factory area".

Binghe couldn't help but say silently in his heart: "Nationalism?!" It's something advanced. ”

Suddenly, there was a "grunt", and Binghe's stomach screamed at the right time.

Binghe took a candy cube from his pocket and threw it into his mouth, the sweet taste in his mouth, soothing the protest in his belly.

Suddenly, Binghe frowned and said: "Grain, by the way, how did they solve the food problem?" ”

Along the way on the train, Binghe saw that the investment in water conservancy in agriculture in this place was obviously a grade worse than that of Oka.

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Having thought of this question.

Binghe closed his eyes, held his head high, and focused his attention on his nose. Suck it up. Make an effort to distinguish the air

Quickly Binghe opened his eyes and turned to look at one of the city's factory districts.

Because the view is blocked by the building

So "bang dang dang", Binghe continued to climb upward,

Climbing to a height of forty meters in this mechanical tower, Binghe looked at a certain city area in the distance, and said in amazement: "Damn, no." ”

What Binghe saw was a large number of spherical metal pots, and these were hydrolysis pots that Binghe recognized. This equipment is used for grain production. It's just that the scale here is a bit large.

However, just as Binghe vacated his right hand and was about to point with his fingers and count how many hydrolysis pots there were.

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At this time, the sound of a nervous peso came from under the tower.

"Melt steel, come down, come down"

Beside the peso, a local officer stood aside, and behind the officer was a group of infantry armed with guns. The climb is not popular with the people of the city.

It was a military state, and the local aristocracy considered it a suspicion of spies.

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That night, Binghe returned to the train and was locked in a confined carriage by Chengtou. Before the lock of the confinement chamber,

Cheng Tou said angrily: "Before you reach Vikla, you should take it with you in the car." And Peso, who was standing next to Chengtou, spread his hands to Binghe, signaling "I can't help it"

After the confinement gate was closed, Binghe, who was sitting alone in the carriage, did not have the slightest consciousness of being confined, but twisted a piece of grass, chewed it in his mouth, and then spit out the grass residue, nodded abruptly and said: "Cellulose hydrolysis and fracture is sugar." ”

The train continued on and left the city of Pratt & Whitney.

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Vikla, the capital of the Duchy of Oakleigh.

Two thousand years ago, the city was the most important city in the eastern part of the Heman Empire. At that time, when the earthly dragon was not extinct (before the steam calendar, it was the beast calendar),

It is home to the largest heavy cavalry corps on the continent. Three thousand years ago, the heavy cavalry regiments stationed in Vikra drove the nomads of the east to the barren steppes, and among the commanders of the Vikra heavy cavalry were the ancestors of the Oakley family.

At the time of the Beast Calendar, there was no so-called Oka Empire. It was the marriage between the Ice Floes and Bickley that caught up with the Heman core.

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At that time the legend of dragoons and dragon lances of the Megatron continent. However, after thousands of years of ups and downs, when gunpowder weapons became more and more powerful, when railway logistics turned war into the roar of artillery pouring steel rain and iron hail. The hoplites were in complete decline. And the Dixing Dragon, which once consumed a lot of the country's military resources, is no longer raised. (The feed of one earth-walking dragon is equivalent to eight military horses)

Gradually, the dragon became extinct, and the skeleton of this creature now exists only in museums, although the frozen corpses of the permafrost glaciers of the northern islands still remain.

That's right

The Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth in the north of St. Sauc, that is, one of the dragoon families that commanded back then. Theoretically, the Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth was also eligible to participate in the election of the Heman Emperor. It's just that no one mentions it anymore. The Grand Duke of Dragon's Tooth will definitely not find something to mention this matter for. After all, there is only one emperor in the Saint Sauk Empire.

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Two hundred and seventy years ago, the cavalry regiment of the Duchy of Oakleigh was the most glorious cavalry on the continent in modern times.

At that time, the total number of 50,000 Oakley cavalry, led by the wife (career general) of the previous Grand Duke of Oakley, crossed the northern forest, and dealt a fatal blow to the logistics line of the Oka Empire. As a result, four armored brigades of 140,000 troops on the front line of the Oka Empire had to retreat in defeat. At that time, the Oka Empire finally gathered a counterattack and completely stopped cooking.

Now Oakley still maintains the most powerful cavalry legion in the Western Continent. It's just that the glorious cavalry of the past has become a single class of troops now.

Although cavalry is still a very useful class. In the battle situation, it has a high mobility ability, which can form a strong impact on areas with weak firepower.

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The problem with the Grand Duchy of Oakley for the past hundred years is that they have lagged far behind the other industrial nations in all respects, except for cavalry.

Oakley, located in the middle of the continent, has a majority of pastoral aristocrats in its social structure. There is no transition to becoming an industrial country.

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In the last two hundred years, more and more railway networks have been built in the western continent.

With the advancement of logistics, infantry regiments carrying heavy artillery also had the ability to attack at long distances. The offensive role of cavalry was largely replaced.

The military academies of the countries of the continent believed that the cavalry offensive had one remaining advantage over the infantry group.

That is, the cavalry has the choice of time and space on the battlefield.

Cavalry could take advantage of the mobile nature and choose to attack in the enemy's weak spots. The right choice was crucial for the cavalry commander

The cavalry did not choose to capture a well-defended fortress, nor did it choose to force the present bipedal armored troops. The current armored forces are very slow, and they wish they could catch the cavalry troops and crush them. And the cavalry chose such an enemy, then it means that the cavalry commander chose the wrong one from the beginning.

However, there are often many situations on the battlefield where you have to choose.

That is, their important strategic points are attacked, the area is empty, and the only one who can reach it is the cavalry, so the cavalry must rush to the area even if it is inferior.

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Now Oakley may face a large-scale war in the future.

Assuming that the Grand Duchy of Oakley is facing war from the west, the Oakley commanders may have to think not about attacking, but about how to block the heavy firepower corps of the Pratt & Whitney Railway Logistics to the east.

With the support of the railway, the 10 divisions of Pratt & Whitney's full range of heavy firepower were extremely fast in transporting troops, and in the face of Pratt & Whitney's heavy artillery regiment, the Oakley Cavalry Corps, which only had light artillery, would suffer a great loss.

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And now the nobles and commanders of Oakley still adhere to the principle that "the cavalry group can only look for the weak point of the logistics line in a big detour", that is, the glorious old yellow calendar of two hundred and seventy years ago.

But here's the problem, it takes time to make a big detour.

If Oakley's cavalry corps is in the middle of the great detour, and the attack of the heavy fire infantry regiment of Pratt & Whitney has completed the military stronghold of the Oakley logistics base, the troops who carry out the great detour will become a lone army with the logistics cut off.

Whoever is one step faster on the battlefield wins, and it is clear that Oakley is now at a disadvantage in terms of speed.

There is a way to compensate for this disadvantage, and that is the fortress class.

In recent centuries, the fortress profession has been declining more and more, so much so that now the major military powers on the continent have begun to declare that there is no fortress in the world that will not fall. With enough firepower, it can bombard and destroy a city garrisoned by a fortress in two days. (The fortress professions in the Oka Empire are now all in battleship service)

However, the fortress class is not completely in decline, and they can still strategically slow down the Great Army.

For example, if Oakley can hold off the enemy's heavy fireteam in a city for two days, it means that Oakley's cavalry regiment has two days to attack the enemy's logistics line in a roundabout way. This can ensure that the tide of battle turns in a favorable state.

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And it is precisely the Grand Duchy of Oakley that has two high-ranking professions, one is authority, and the other is general. But only the lack of a fortress. In the past, the old Grand Duke of Oakley, the fortress families on the continent maintained good relations. And now? Well, Oakley is arrogant now.

The whole Duchy of Oakley is now in a crispy state. All the economic, industrial and military towns are located in the plains, without the mountains to block them. All the fortifications were built to the standards of two hundred years ago, and they were less and less adapted to the larger caliber siege mortars that appeared in this world.

It's the year 1026 of the steam calendar, and what can Oakley do to stop Pratt & Whitney, which has become an industrial country?

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Because of the majority of the pastoral nobles, the current upper class of Oakley still has a kind of enigmatic confidence in the cavalry, and even the firepower development of the major powers on the mainland in the past two hundred years is still stuck in the impression of two hundred years ago. And the representative of this is the current new Grand Duke of Oakley.

But not everyone in Oakley is confused. These men are trying to save the day for Oakley.